Orioles Baseball Team To Leave Baltimore For Nashville?

 Well....in social media circles....this chatter has started up....mostly off a comment made in a courtroom....last week.

The jest to all of this?

2005 was the last time that the team had over 30k tickets sold for local games.  In fact, since 2017....the team hasn't gone over the 20,000 level per game.  Right now for 2022....they are averaging around 16,000 fans per game.

If you were trying to measure 'thrills' for this team?  Well...it's a mix of cheaper players and rookies.  They haven't been able to have the revenue....to participate in real four-star players.

The idea of having two-million fan-tickets sold each year?  Most locals would agree that those days are gone.

The ballpark?  Camden Yards?  It was finished in 1992 and is 30 years old.  It is a unique design and probably could serve out for another decade.  

Why Nashville?  Metro-Nashville is 1.3-million....if you go Greater-Nashville, it's at 2-million, and from central Tennessee in general....it's probably near 3-million.

The script for this 'move'?  I think at the end of 2022....the team will note that they rank around 13/14 out of the fifteen clubs in the league.  Mid-way through 2023's season....I think the team will just say that's it....the financial incentives of Baltimore make no sense.  

Add into this....downtown Baltimore is only 'safe' because of a massive amount of police action.  People come to the game....then quickly leave the area....the city crime problem is making the baseball gimmick marginal in terms of attracting folks.

So talk will start up at this point in 2023....building a new baseball park in Nashville....probably to be finished by 2025, and the team arrives.  

Baltimore to beg the league for a new team?  Maybe, but there's no sense to this.